Local Resident Submissions to the Leicestershire County Council Electoral Review
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Local resident submissions to the Leicestershire County Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from local residents. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Leicestershire County Personal Details: Name: Ros Aldwinckle E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: Having lived in oadby for almost all my life and watched it change dramatically I do not see why the area I live in should be linked with wigston. Surely Oadby could simply split into two parts with two councillors leaving wigston out of it. That way we would be represented truly locally. I for one object to the new proposed boundary change but agree to less councillors being needed. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/6247 02/12/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Leicestershire County Personal Details: Name: E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: I fully object to this going ahead. We bought a property in Syston as Syston is where we wanted to live. If we had wanted to live in thurmaston we would have done so and also would have got a property in that area cheaper. With this change if will affect my family expenditure due to insurance payments etc. Please take note in looking at the current thurmaston area in making it better and having it being busier with the additional 5000 homes being built soon. This is unfair on residents and the change doesn't need to take place. Thanks Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/6551 08/01/2016 The Review Officer (Leicestershire) Local Government Boundary Commission for England 14th Floor, Millbank Tower Millbank London SW1P 4QP 9.1.16 Dear Mr D.Owen, Having studied your literature on the boundary review of Leicestershire County Divisions, we would like you to add our objection to your proposal of including the South part of Syston in the Thurmaston Ridgmere Divison. We would like to base our argument around your notes that states, ‘This part of Syston is contiguous with, and of similar character to, the part of Thurmaston Parish also served by Melton Road’. We would like to draw your attention to the following considerations, which we feel contradict this reasoning. We hope to use statements from your own criteria to justify our arguments. 1. Identifiable Boundaries- In your statement you say that major roads form well know barriers between communities. With regards to Melton Road, it forms 5 well known distinctive barriers, at Suburban Rearsby, Queniborough, Syston, Thurmaston and Leicester City which the communities of Leicestershire are very familiar with. Each part has its own well defined characteristics and therefore, the South part of Syston of Melton Road, does not have a similar character to Thurmaston. Furthermore, Thurmaston part is recommended for regeneration by the Borough Council, due to the negative impact after the By Pass was built, which divides the Thurmaston Community. 2. Legislation 2 regarding the estimated changes in the number of distribution of electors likely to take place of a five year period from the date of our final recommendation.- The Borough Council have given planning approval for the building of 3,500 houses, rising to 4,500 based on their Core Strategy. This will add a significant amount of electors in the intended Thurmaston Ridgemere ward. Therefore your proposal to add approx. 206 houses will have no significant effect on the distribution of electors. This development is also identifying a relief road cutting Thurmaston and Syston after Simpson Close through the fields of Roundhill Academy. If your proposed changes occur, this will cut off the South part of Syston from Thurmaston and isolating it from the rest of Syston. This will have a detrimental effect, similar to when the By Pass was built in Thurmaston. 3. Facilities– Your criteria states that the location of public facilities can represent the centre point of a community. –The centre points of Syston are: the fantastic medical centre, the South Charnwood Leisure Centre, the key supermarkets: Coop, Tesco and Aldi, religious establishments and its vibrant Town centre. The people of Syston identify with these facilities more than the purpose built shopping centre in Thurmaston. The shops in Syston provide a sense of community spirit. Many residents from the South of Syston have been resident here for a considerable length of time and many have moved from Thurmaston to Syston, to enjoy the Syston facilities and have a distinctive way of life. 4. Community groups-The residents of this part of Syston are very heavily involved in many community organisations. Many of them are key leaders of the community and belong to establish groups for many years’ e.g. Church groups, Bowling Club, football and cricket clubs, The Syston Carnival, Syston Christmas Fayre, Syston in Bloom, the Patients’ Forum for Syston Medical centre and many more. These residents would like to continue fully with their activities in Syston as they have done for many years. 5. Parish Boundaries- In areas where parishes exist, the parish boundaries often represent the extent of a community. In fact, the Commission often uses parishes as the building blocks of wards and electoral divisions. A further statement, states that we are required to divide it into parishes wards, so that each parish ward is wholly contained in a county division. - Your present proposal is dividing this part of the parish into the Thurmaston Ridgmere, County division which is against the above statement. Whereas we should be fully in Syston Fosse or Syston Ridgeway as a community. In conclusion, your statement says, ’we are currently inviting local people and organisation to tell us where they think new electoral division boundaries should be drawn across Leicestershire.’ We am requesting you to reconsider your draft proposal to keep to the original boundary division and leave this minor portion of Syston, where it belongs in true Syston. Yours sincerely, Mr M.H.Asmal, Mrs K.Asmal, Mr A.Asmal and Mr A.I.Asmal Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Leicestershire County Personal Details: Name: Mary Bell E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: Oadby has always been separate from Wigston and South Wigston.All three feel they have an individual unique identity.The bus service provides poor links between the three,libraries are separate,the Swimming pools,the churches and in particular the shopping centres.We have come to know our own councillors over the years.We have our own Rugby and Football clubs and grounds.Leave us as we are.It works well as it is.Oadbys boundary is with Harborough on one side,Leicester on another and Wigston the other.our population has expanded greatly since I came in the 1970s.Just give us the number of councillors relevant to our population not our physical size. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/6405 22/12/2015 Owen, David From: Mayers, Mishka on behalf of reviews Sent: 16 December 2015 13:56 To: Owen, David Subject: FW: Leicestershire County Council Boundaries in the Borough of Melton Mowbray From: Graham Bett Sent: 16 December 2015 10:33 To: reviews <[email protected]> Subject: Leicestershire County Council Boundaries in the Borough of Melton Mowbray Dear Sir Leicestershire County Council Boundaries in the Borough of Melton Mowbray I have looked carefully at the Commission’s proposals for Melton and feel very strongly that they represent the best possible Division Boundaries for the Town and Borough. This is because the Commission’s recommendations: Ensure, as far as reasonably possible, equality of representation, in terms of number of voters; Recognise the interests, identities and needs of both our urban and rural communities, including the need for the recognisable community of Melton Town to be suitably represented; Promote effective and convenient local government by creating divisions that are an appropriate size – they are easily manageable in terms of representation, and have clear understandable and logical boundaries. Melton Town does not have a Town Council and depends upon its Borough and County elected representatives to consider its particular interests, opportunities and challenges. Similarly, rural communities value representation from those with a strong commitment and understanding of their interests. I believe the effective representation of both rural and urban communities is best served by the current proposals for an East and a West Division within the Town Boundary. By creating the East and the West Divisions within the Melton Town Boundary, based on current Town Ward boundaries, the community identification of people living and working in the town is strengthened. An advantage of mainly keeping to the Melton Borough Council Ward boundaries is that it facilitates good governance through liaison between County and Borough Councillors. Thank you for taking my views into consideration. Kind Regards Graham Bett 1 2 Owen, David From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 03 December 2015 10:05 To: Owen, David Subject: FW: Oadby & Wigston Boundary Proposal From: HAZEL BEVINS Sent: 03 December 2015 09:59 To: reviews <[email protected]> Subject: Oadby & Wigston Boundary Proposal Good Morning After reading information from my local council, I would like to record my objection to new boundary proposals, as I don't believe changes would have any real benefit to any of the communites affected and could indeed be detrimental. Yours Hazel Bevins 1 Owen, David From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 04 January 2016 13:25 To: Owen, David Subject: FW: Boundary reviews Syston Leicestershire ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐ From: JULIE BLACK Sent: 04 January 2016 13:23 To: reviews <[email protected]> Subject: Boundary reviews Syston Leicestershire F.A.O the review officer It has recently come to our attention via our local parish councillor of the intention of The Local Government Boundary Commission for England and Wales to be reviewing the boundary where I live.